骨肉瘤是最常见的原发性骨癌，其标准治疗包括术前化疗，然后切除。化学疗法反应用于预测患者的预后和进一步治疗。坏死在切除标本上的组织学幻灯片通常评估了坏死比定义为坏死肿瘤与总体肿瘤之比。已知坏死比> = 90％的患者的预后更好。多个载玻片对坏死比的手动微观综述是半定量性的，并且可能具有观察者间和观察者间的变异性。我们提出了一种基于目标和可再现的深度学习方法，以估计坏死比，并从扫描的苏木精和曙红全幻灯片图像预测结果。我们以3134个WSI的速度收集了103例骨肉瘤病例，以训练我们的深度学习模型，验证坏死比评估并评估结果预测。我们训练了深层多磁化网络，以分割多个组织亚型，包括生存的肿瘤和像素级中的坏死肿瘤，并计算来自多个WSI的病例级坏死比。我们显示了通过分割模型估算的坏死比，高度与由专家手动评估的病理报告中的坏死比高度相关，其中IV级的平均绝对差异（100％），III（> = 90％）和II（> = 50％和<50％和< 90％）坏死反应分别为4.4％，4.5％和17.8％。我们成功地对患者进行了分层，以预测P = 10^-6的总生存率，而P = 0.012的无进展生存率。我们没有可变性的可重现方法使我们能够调整截止阈值，特别是用于模型和数据集的截止阈值，为OS的80％，PFS为60％。我们的研究表明，深度学习可以支持病理学家作为一种客观的工具，可以分析组织学中骨肉瘤，以评估治疗反应并预测患者结果。

目的：目的是将先前验证的深度学习算法应用于新的甲状腺结节超声图像数据集，并将其性能与放射科医生进行比较。方法：先前的研究提出了一种能够检测甲状腺结节，然后使用两个超声图像进行恶性分类的算法。从1278个结节训练了多任务深度卷积神经网络，最初用99个单独的结节进行了测试。结果与放射科医生相当。与培训案例相比，使用来自不同制造商和产品类型的超声计算机成像的378个结节进一步测试了该算法。要求四名经验丰富的放射科医生评估结节，以与深度学习进行比较。结果：用参数，二维估计计算了深度学习算法和四个放射科医生的曲线（AUC）面积。对于深度学习算法，AUC为0.70（95％CI：0.64-0.75）。放射科医生的AUC为0.66（95％CI：0.61-0.71），0.67（95％CI：0.62-0.73），0.68（95％CI：0.63-0.73）和0.66（95％CI：95％CI：0.61-0.71）。结论：在新的测试数据集中，深度学习算法与所有四个放射科医生都达到了类似的性能。

肺癌是全球癌症死亡的主要原因，肺腺癌是最普遍的肺癌形式。 EGFR阳性肺腺癌已被证明对TKI治疗的反应率很高，这是肺癌分子测试的基本性质。尽管目前的指南考虑必要测试，但很大一部分患者并未常规化，导致数百万的人未接受最佳治疗肺癌。测序是EGFR突变分子测试的黄金标准，但是结果可能需要数周的时间才能回来，这在时间限制的情况下并不理想。能够快速，便宜地检测EGFR突变的替代筛查工具的开发，同时保存组织以进行测序可以帮助减少受比较治疗的患者的数量。我们提出了一种多模式方法，该方法将病理图像和临床变量整合在一起，以预测EGFR突变状态，迄今为止最大的临床队列中的AUC为84％。这样的计算模型可以以很少的额外成本进行大部分部署。它的临床应用可以减少中国接受亚最佳治疗的患者数量53.1％，在美国将高达96.6％的患者减少96.6％。

The recent increase in public and academic interest in preserving biodiversity has led to the growth of the field of conservation technology. This field involves designing and constructing tools that utilize technology to aid in the conservation of wildlife. In this article, we will use case studies to demonstrate the importance of designing conservation tools with human-wildlife interaction in mind and provide a framework for creating successful tools. These case studies include a range of complexities, from simple cat collars to machine learning and game theory methodologies. Our goal is to introduce and inform current and future researchers in the field of conservation technology and provide references for educating the next generation of conservation technologists. Conservation technology not only has the potential to benefit biodiversity but also has broader impacts on fields such as sustainability and environmental protection. By using innovative technologies to address conservation challenges, we can find more effective and efficient solutions to protect and preserve our planet's resources.

We present the interpretable meta neural ordinary differential equation (iMODE) method to rapidly learn generalizable (i.e., not parameter-specific) dynamics from trajectories of multiple dynamical systems that vary in their physical parameters. The iMODE method learns meta-knowledge, the functional variations of the force field of dynamical system instances without knowing the physical parameters, by adopting a bi-level optimization framework: an outer level capturing the common force field form among studied dynamical system instances and an inner level adapting to individual system instances. A priori physical knowledge can be conveniently embedded in the neural network architecture as inductive bias, such as conservative force field and Euclidean symmetry. With the learned meta-knowledge, iMODE can model an unseen system within seconds, and inversely reveal knowledge on the physical parameters of a system, or as a Neural Gauge to "measure" the physical parameters of an unseen system with observed trajectories. We test the validity of the iMODE method on bistable, double pendulum, Van der Pol, Slinky, and reaction-diffusion systems.

While the brain connectivity network can inform the understanding and diagnosis of developmental dyslexia, its cause-effect relationships have not yet enough been examined. Employing electroencephalography signals and band-limited white noise stimulus at 4.8 Hz (prosodic-syllabic frequency), we measure the phase Granger causalities among channels to identify differences between dyslexic learners and controls, thereby proposing a method to calculate directional connectivity. As causal relationships run in both directions, we explore three scenarios, namely channels' activity as sources, as sinks, and in total. Our proposed method can be used for both classification and exploratory analysis. In all scenarios, we find confirmation of the established right-lateralized Theta sampling network anomaly, in line with the temporal sampling framework's assumption of oscillatory differences in the Theta and Gamma bands. Further, we show that this anomaly primarily occurs in the causal relationships of channels acting as sinks, where it is significantly more pronounced than when only total activity is observed. In the sink scenario, our classifier obtains 0.84 and 0.88 accuracy and 0.87 and 0.93 AUC for the Theta and Gamma bands, respectively.

Variational autoencoders model high-dimensional data by positing low-dimensional latent variables that are mapped through a flexible distribution parametrized by a neural network. Unfortunately, variational autoencoders often suffer from posterior collapse: the posterior of the latent variables is equal to its prior, rendering the variational autoencoder useless as a means to produce meaningful representations. Existing approaches to posterior collapse often attribute it to the use of neural networks or optimization issues due to variational approximation. In this paper, we consider posterior collapse as a problem of latent variable non-identifiability. We prove that the posterior collapses if and only if the latent variables are non-identifiable in the generative model. This fact implies that posterior collapse is not a phenomenon specific to the use of flexible distributions or approximate inference. Rather, it can occur in classical probabilistic models even with exact inference, which we also demonstrate. Based on these results, we propose a class of latent-identifiable variational autoencoders, deep generative models which enforce identifiability without sacrificing flexibility. This model class resolves the problem of latent variable non-identifiability by leveraging bijective Brenier maps and parameterizing them with input convex neural networks, without special variational inference objectives or optimization tricks. Across synthetic and real datasets, latent-identifiable variational autoencoders outperform existing methods in mitigating posterior collapse and providing meaningful representations of the data.

There are multiple scales of abstraction from which we can describe the same image, depending on whether we are focusing on fine-grained details or a more global attribute of the image. In brain mapping, learning to automatically parse images to build representations of both small-scale features (e.g., the presence of cells or blood vessels) and global properties of an image (e.g., which brain region the image comes from) is a crucial and open challenge. However, most existing datasets and benchmarks for neuroanatomy consider only a single downstream task at a time. To bridge this gap, we introduce a new dataset, annotations, and multiple downstream tasks that provide diverse ways to readout information about brain structure and architecture from the same image. Our multi-task neuroimaging benchmark (MTNeuro) is built on volumetric, micrometer-resolution X-ray microtomography images spanning a large thalamocortical section of mouse brain, encompassing multiple cortical and subcortical regions. We generated a number of different prediction challenges and evaluated several supervised and self-supervised models for brain-region prediction and pixel-level semantic segmentation of microstructures. Our experiments not only highlight the rich heterogeneity of this dataset, but also provide insights into how self-supervised approaches can be used to learn representations that capture multiple attributes of a single image and perform well on a variety of downstream tasks. Datasets, code, and pre-trained baseline models are provided at: https://mtneuro.github.io/ .

We derive a set of causal deep neural networks whose architectures are a consequence of tensor (multilinear) factor analysis. Forward causal questions are addressed with a neural network architecture composed of causal capsules and a tensor transformer. The former estimate a set of latent variables that represent the causal factors, and the latter governs their interaction. Causal capsules and tensor transformers may be implemented using shallow autoencoders, but for a scalable architecture we employ block algebra and derive a deep neural network composed of a hierarchy of autoencoders. An interleaved kernel hierarchy preprocesses the data resulting in a hierarchy of kernel tensor factor models. Inverse causal questions are addressed with a neural network that implements multilinear projection and estimates the causes of effects. As an alternative to aggressive bottleneck dimension reduction or regularized regression that may camouflage an inherently underdetermined inverse problem, we prescribe modeling different aspects of the mechanism of data formation with piecewise tensor models whose multilinear projections are well-defined and produce multiple candidate solutions. Our forward and inverse neural network architectures are suitable for asynchronous parallel computation.

Landing an unmanned aerial vehicle unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) on top of an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) in harsh open waters is a challenging problem, owing to forces that can damage the UAV due to a severe roll and/or pitch angle of the USV during touchdown. To tackle this, we propose a novel model predictive control (MPC) approach enabling a UAV to land autonomously on a USV in these harsh conditions. The MPC employs a novel objective function and an online decomposition of the oscillatory motion of the vessel to predict, attempt, and accomplish the landing during near-zero tilt of the landing platform. The nonlinear prediction of the motion of the vessel is performed using visual data from an onboard camera. Therefore, the system does not require any communication with the USV or a control station. The proposed method was analyzed in numerous robotics simulations in harsh and extreme conditions and further validated in various real-world scenarios.